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Lindsay, one of our Maker Corps Members, shares photos of her summer workshop: The most anticipated part of my summer job was planning my own workshop. After careful consideration and prototyping I decided on a conductive felting workshop. It was amazingly exciting to see what directions the children went in, and how they decided to incorporate the electronic components. Overall, it was a great success! -Lindsay

Sam, one of our Maker Corps Members, reflects on a favorite activity of the summer: Tots run MAKESHOP on Monday mornings when we close off the workshop and have Tot MAKE, with activities designed for younger children, ages 1-3. So far, my favorite Tot MAKE of the summer was when we made tasty jam out of berries. We started off Tot MAKE by reading ‘Don’t Squish the Sasquatch’. Then, we put our squishing skills to the

Nick, one of our Maker Corps Members, describes the workshop he planned: Recently, I had the opportunity to teach a workshop called “Wooden Automata”, in which kids created kinetic wood projects. When I started planning my workshop, I immediately knew I wanted to do something with wood, since it’s my favorite material to work with. I realized that for a lot of kids, wood is seen as purely static, an

Join us at the Knit the Bridge celebration of yarn bombing the Warhol Bridge (7th Street Bridge) – the largest yarn bomb ever in the U.S.! MAKESHOP visitors and staff stitched a panel that covers a section of the bridge. Details here Sunday, August 25 3:00 – 7:00 pm

We’re working on an exciting new project at MAKESHOP: A Catapult! Normally we don’t make war machines, but this one has been repurposed for FUN. Our design is based on the trebuchet, a sling-based counterweight-powered type of catapult originally invented in the 11th century. We’re building this crazy thing to throw the first pitch for the Pirates game on September 1st! Check out the Rookie of the G

How do you make a board game? All you really need is a table, pencils, a stack of paper and your imagination. A couple of weeks ago we allowed visitors to play and add to a simple board game that we started. The end result was amazing…And really challenging. Most of the rules forced you to do some sort of physical challenge… …Or made you go back to start. The open-ended nature of the